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15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellow's not very prepossessing, he told me, of an evening when he had dined with us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reasonably,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laurence tells me Madame and Mary Virginia _like_ the fellow. H'm! Well, I've acquired a ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead, huh? he grunted, and stared about him, with a slow, twisting movement of the head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well--I might just as well be, as buried alive in a jay-dump at the tail-end of all creation!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What am ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to feel like a live man! he gritted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A live man, not a one-legged mucker with a beard like a Dutch bomb-thrower's, puttering about a skypilot's backyard on the wrong side of everything!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and shake hands with Mr. Flint, Kerry, said she to the setter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to help make him understand things it's high time he should know. Nobody can do that better than a good dog can."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! said Mary Virginia, delightedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, don't you see how horrid it was to talk the way you talked? Why, Kerry _likes_ you, and Kerry is a sensible dog."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, miss,"
},
{
"from": ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Flint, said Mary Virginia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, miss, I can't see but that I've just got to stay on--for awhile. Until he's tired of me and my ways, anyhow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, said she earnestly,"
},
{
... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel so sure of it, said she, confidently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The scorn of the real dog-lover was in her voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kerry's used to the Parish House. He loves the Padre, he'll soon love you, and he likes to play ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean you're willing to let me keep your dog for you? Yours?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to _give_ him to you, said Mary Virginia bravely enough, though her voice trembled."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I come to think of it, said John Flint slowly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never had anything--anything alive, I mean--belong to me before."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just exactly why you thought nobody was worth anything,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kerry, dear, said she,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kerry, dear Kerry, you don't belong to me any more. I--I've got to go away to school--and you know you wo... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's wet--where she dropped tears on it! Parson ... she's given me her dog ... that she loves enough to cry over!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a very fine dog, and she has had him and loved him from his puppyhood, I reminded him. And I added, with a wily tongu... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I come back, Mary Virginia said to him at parting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect you'll know more about moths and butterflies than anybody else in the world does. You're that sort. I'd love to be here, watching you grow up into it, but I've got to go a... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you're sorry I'm going away, said she, with the directness that was so engaging."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I perfectly love people to feel sorry to part with me. I hope and _hope_ they'll keep on being sorry--because they'll be that much gladder when I ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, he grumbled to Laurence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather stay up--the air's better, and you can see so much farther, said Laurence. And he added hospitably:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's plenty of room--come on up, yourself!"
... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I got pitched into this burg, said the lame man thoughtfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I landed all there--except a leg, but I never carried my brains in my legs. I hadn't got any bats in my belfry. But I'm getting 'em. I'm getting 'em so bad that when I h... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's my town, with his chin out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It could be a mighty good town. It's going to become one. I expect to live all my life right here, among my own people, and they've got to make it worth my while. I don't propose to cut myself down to fi... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess you'd better tell me good-by now, Padre, said he, presently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And bless me, please--it's a pretty custom. I won't see you again, for you'll be saying mass when I'm running for my train. I'll go tell John Flint good-by, too."
},... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can stand a man, suh, that likes to get along in this world--within proper bounds. But Inglesby hasn't got any proper bounds. He's a--a cross between a Republican mule and a party-bolting boa-constrictor, an' a hybrid like that hasn't got any place in nature. On top of that he... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up there on those leaves, you horn-tailed horror! Move on,--you lepidopterous son of a wigglejoint, or I'll pull your real name on you in a minute and paralyze you stiff! He drew a long breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know how I'm beginning to remember... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, that Mayne kid's dead right. It's you good guys that are to blame. We little bad ones see you kowtowing to the big worse ones, and we get to thinking _we_ can come in under the wires easy winners, too. However, let me tell you something while I'm in the humor to gas. ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yep, ten orders in to-day's mail and seven in yesterday's; and good orders for the wasp-moths, single or together, and that house in New York wants steady supplies from now on. And here's a fancy shop wants a dozen trays, like that last one I finished. We're looking up,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He may have only one leg, said Westmoreland, when Flint had helped him all of one night with a desperately ill millworker,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because it'd sort of give you a black eye if I didn't, he explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Skypiloting's your lay, father, and I'll see you through with it as far as I can. I couldn't fall down on any man that's been as white to me as you've been."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't seem to stand a man dolled-up in skirts, he confessed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any more than I'd be stuck on a dame with whiskers. It don't somehow look right to me. Put the he-saints in pants instead of those brown kimonas with gold crocheting and a r... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, father, that's all right. If you say it's so, I guess it's so. I'll take your word for it. If it's good enough for you and Madame, there's got to be something in it, and it's sure good enough for me. Look here: the little girl and young Mayne have got a differe... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet this thing will answer a call no ears can hear and crawl out of its coffin something entirely different from what went into it! I've seen it with my own eyes, but how it's done I don't know; no, nor no man since the world was made knows, or could do it himself. What does... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can my government do for me? he had to answer:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It can put me in prison and keep me there; it can even send me to the Chair."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where'd you get this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I asked for it, and the Bureau sent it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! You've got a friend there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. The bulletins are free to any one interested enough... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can help me to make good."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you mean the Butterfly Man! Sure. You'll find him about somewhere with the kids."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was twenty-five years old when I landed here, he reminded me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I've got twenty-five years' back-work to catch up with."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my, my, my, what a surgeon gone to waste! Westmoreland would lament, watching the long, sure fingers at work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I suppose it's all for the best that Father De Rancé beat me to you--at least you've done less damage learning your ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He smells my Unitarian soul, confound him! said the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' he's so orthodox he thinks he'll get chucked out of dog-heaven, if he doesn't show his disapproval."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson, he rasped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've bucked this thing for fair, but I've got to go back and see it and smell it and taste it and feel it and know it all again, or I'll go crazy. You're all of you so good down here you're too much for me. _I'm home-... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you are safe. You are building up an honored name. You are winning the respect and confidence of all decent people--and you wish to undo it all. You wish to take such desperate chances--now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to go! he burst forth, white-li... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll leave on the three-o'clock, he flung over his shoulder to me, standing disconsolate in the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll stop at the bank on my way."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, said I, forcing myself to face the inevitable without noise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to go! I've got to go! He repeated it as one repeats an incantation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got to go!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He really needs the change. A short trip will do him a world of good, she concluded equably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is still quite a young man, and I'm sure it must be dull for him here at times, in spite of his work. Why, he hasn't been out of this county... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such an--aberrant! he panted. He was still breathing so rapidly he had to jerk his words out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got the--biggest, handsomest--most perfect and wonderful--specimen of--an aberrant swallow-tail--any man ever laid--his eyes on! I though... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She led me the devil's own chase, for I'd nothing but my hat to net her with. A dozen times I thought I had her, and missed. It was heart-breaking. I felt I'd go stark crazy if she got away from me. I had to get her. And the Lord was good and rewarded me for my patience, for I c... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you didn't go! I stammered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, John Flint, John Flint, you didn't go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catch me running away like a fool when a six-inch off-color swallow-tail flirts herself under my nose and dares me t... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father! ... _Father!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My son ... I was afraid ... you were lost ... gone ... into a far country.... It would have broken my heart!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had the station agent wire for my grip, said Flint casually."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I gave the darky I knocked down fifty cents to soothe his feelings. He offered to let me do it again for a quarter."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, said he, quietly, and looked at me with steady eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember what that little girl said when she gave me her dog? Well, I reckon she was right. I reckon I'm here for keeps. I reckon, father, that you and I do belong."
},
{
... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure, she asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I am sure."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My boy's forever boasting of your Butterfly Man, said the judge, falling into step with me one morning on the street."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He tells me Flint's been made a member of several learned societies; and that he's gotten out a book of sorts, telling... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When such a lady approves of any man, said he, gallantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall have to consider John Flint knighted, then, said my mother merrily, when I repeated the conversation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's see, she continu... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gosh, pal, I've sure had some meal! said the bluejay to John Flint."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chase that skirt, over there, please--she makes too much noise to suit me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My nest! he cried tragically."
},
{
"fro... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a thief and a robber! raged the Butterfly Man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a damn little bird-killer, that's what you are! I ought to wring your neck for you, and I'd do it if it would do the rest of your tribe any good. But it wouldn't. It wouldn't ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Damn little thief! he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you don't even have to care! No! It's not right. There ought to be some way to save the mothers and the nests from your sort--without having to kill you, either. But good Lord, how? That's what I want... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think there is a way, said Laurence, gravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've got a devil of a way of twisting things into parables. I'm talking birds and thinking birds, and here you must go and make my birds people! I wasn't thinking about people--that is, ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pillar of cloud by day, said he"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Padre, the Butterfly Man's seen something this morning that will sink to the bottom of his soul and stay there: didn't you see his eyes? Now, which of those two have taught him the most--the happy thief and murderer, or the innocent unhappy victim? The bluejay's not a whit the w... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fellow with pull behind him, said John Flint,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Christian wife and offspring seven Mourn for John Peters who has gone to heaven. But as for him we are sure he can weep no more, He is happy with the lovely angels on that bright shore."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Matty, I watched thee laid in the gloomy grave's embrace, Where nobody can evermore press your hand or your sweet face. When you were alive I often thought of thee with fond pride, And meant to call around some night & ask you to be my loving Bride."
},
{
"from": "g... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you know, he remarked to Laurence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Folks in this county will sort of miss the _Clarion_, he reflected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After all, it's the one county paper.... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless, said the Butterfly Man to me, complacently,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LET'S GET TOGETHER!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, said the Butterfly Man to me,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Book of Rules for Employees."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he, or isn't he, a hypocrite pure and simple, or are such men self-deceived? mused my mother, puckering her brows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will do nothing, I know, that he can well avoid. But--he gave me of his own accord his personal check for fifty dol... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's think this thing out, said John Flint to Laurence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cutting out ads is a bad habit. It costs good money. It should be nipped in the bud. You've got to go after advertisers like that and make 'em see the thing in the right light. Sa... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Inglesby, said the Butterfly Man to me one night, casually,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His arrival, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's this way, said he, slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--hear things. A bit her... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bughunter, said Laurence, respectfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you ever take the notion to make me president, will you stand behind and show me how to run the United States on greased wheels?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I? John Flint was g... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Accept it, then, my child, with your old friend's love. Use it in your happy hours, dream over it a little, sigh lightly; and then smile to remember that this is your Hour, that you are young, and life and love are yours. It is in such youthful and happy smiles that we whose day... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will never, never again be at home in little Appleboro, said my mother, regretfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That dear, simple, passionate, eager child we used to know has gone forever--life has taken her. This beautiful creature's place is not here--_she_... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you wish to deal with human beings as with figures in a sum,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Figures, he smiled equably,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear friend, he added, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The day of the grea... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he even had the semblance of a heart! said she, regretfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he is all head, that one."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That great blonde! said Madame, wonderingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is so designedly fascinating I wonder you fail to see the wheels go 'round. However, let me admit that I thank God devoutly I am no longer young and susceptible. Consider the terrible powe... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not let thee go except thou tell me thy name!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you admire Mr. Hunter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I do admire him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then if you admire him, why don't you like him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like the expression of his teeth, he a... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first road don't give you anything you can put your hands on; except that you think and hope maybe there's that light at the end of it. But, parson, I guess if _you're_ man enough to foot it without a pay-envelope coming in on Saturdays, why, it's plenty good enough for _me_... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Padre! said she."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, dear, Padre!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remembered this place, and I knew--I just knew in my heart--you'd be sitting here, with your breviary in your hand. I knew just how you'd be looking up, every now and then, smiling at things because they're lovely and you love them. So I stole around by the back gate--and ther... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother complained that I should at least have the decency to wire you I was coming--she said I was behaving like a child. But I wanted to walk in unannounced. I was so sure, you see, that there'd be welcome and room for me at the Parish House."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laurence generally looks in upon us during the evening, if he is not too busy, she said, non-committally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see, people are beginning to find out what a really fine lawyer Laurence is, so cases are coming to him steadily."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's Mary Virginia!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Laurence! What a Jack-the-Giant-killer! Mercy, how big the boy's grown!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Mary Virginia! What a heart-smasher! Mercy, how pretty the girl's grown! he came back, holding her hand and looking down at her with equally frank delight... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't know how much obliged to you I should be, for if he hadn't accidentally learned I was from Appleboro, the town in which dwelt his most greatly prized correspondent--that's what he said, Mr. Flint!--why, I'm sure he wouldn't have noticed me any more than he noticed any ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I choose the Book of Obituaries first!"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, by the way, Flint! Hunter came by this morning to see Dabney. He is going to give a series of Plain Talks to Workingmen this winter, and of course he wants the _Clarion_ to cover them. What do you think, Padre?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think they will be ... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have saved enough out of my house-money to meet the expenses--and I am _not_ going to be charitable and do my Christian duty with that money! I'm going to entertain. I really owe that much attention to Mary Virginia. She laid her hand on my arm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the Butterfly Man cheerfully, unconsciously falling under the spell of this feminine charm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Flint, said she artlessly, ignoring his questions,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Flint, you've been with Arman... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Armand: nobody respects Holy Orders more than I do: but there isn't anybody alive going to get born or baptized or married or buried, or anything else, in this parish, on that one afternoon. If they are selfish enough to do it anyhow, why, they can do it without your assistance.... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parson! The Butterfly Man seemed to come out of a trance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remember the day you made me let a caterpillar crawl up my hand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, my son."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Parson, ther... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you laughing at?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything, said the Butterfly Man, succinctly, and stood up and shook himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And everybody. And me in particular. _Me!_ Oh, good Lord, think of _Me!_"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it is high time for that man to know his proper place!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And does he not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I suppose so, Armand. In a man's way, though--not a woman's. It's the woman's way that really matters, you see... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said I, making room for him beside me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I'm glad I was let in for it, he admitted frankly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The same as everybody else."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same as everybod... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you are, cuddling that old pirate of a black cat! said she, briskly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told Madame you'd be mooning about somewhere. Here's some cocoanut cake for you both. Father, Madame's been looking for you. Did you know, she sank her voice to... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He looks like a day coach in July,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good right hand, Miss Eustis, I assure you! he beamed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am sure you two need no dissertations upon each other's merits!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None whatever,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, M... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father De Rancé and I, said he, easily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I've been looking for you both."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this, said Inglesby in the sort of voice some people use in addressing strange children to whom they desire to be patronizingly nice and don't know how,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out came the jovial smile in its full deadliness. The Butterfly Man's lips drew... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My obituary? he spluttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, if it's worth while,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame would like to see you, Miss Eustis,"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's been a lovely afternoon, and I've enjoyed it all--except Mr. Inglesby. I don't _like_ Mr. Inglesby, Padre. He's amusing enough, I suppose, at times, but one can't seem to get rid of him--he's a perfect Old Man of the Sea, she told us, confidentially."
},
{
"from": "... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You got the straight tip from Miss Sally Ruth, father, he said, coming out of a brown study."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you suppose that piker's trying to crawl out of his cocoon for? He never wanted to caper around Appleboro women before, did he? No. And... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "EACH IN HIS OWN COIN"
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you'd look up Petronovich's boy, father, he might tell me, or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame, have a woman-talk with Lovena Smith's girl at the mills, will you? Lovena's a fool, and that girl's up against things."
}
] |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the Boss who beats Michael, Meester Fleent, a man volunteered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Boss, he is much drunk. Karski's woman, she did not like the ways of him in her house, and Michael said, 'I will to send for the police.' So Big Jan beats Michael,... |
15843 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meester Fleent! For God's love, save my man, Meester Flint!"
}
] |
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